Mr. T. Ayres on Trans- Vaal Ornithology, 103 
195. Amadina erythrocephala (Linn.). Red-headed 
Finch. 
These pretty little Sparrows are exceedingly scarce here: 
but a single bird or a pair very occasionally appear. The pair 
now sent were shot in the town of Potchefstroom. 
196. Vidua principalis (Linn.). Dominican Widow bird. 
The specimen sent was also shot in the town of Potchef¬ 
stroom. 
197. Alauda conirostris, Sund. Pink-billed Lark. (Plate 
III. fig. 1.) 
The specimen sent (a female) was shot on the flats about 
two miles from Potchefstroom. 
198. Megalophonus erythrochlamys (S trick.). (Plate 
III. fig. 2.) 
I shot the specimen sent (a female) amongst some rocks 
and stones in a range of low hills some three or four miles 
from Potchefstroom; it had a peculiar knack of hiding itself 
by creeping over and about the bits of rock. 
[This species and the preceding one, having, so far as I 
know, never been figured; a plate of the specimens obtained 
by Mr. Ayres is here given. 
A specimen of M. erythrochlamys which is preserved in the 
late Mr. Stricklands collection at the Cambridge museum, 
is considerably paler in its tints than Mr. Ayres's Trans-Vaal 
specimen; but this is probably due in part to the latter having 
been killed shortly after moulting, and whilst its newly ac¬ 
quired dress was still unfaded.—J. H. G.] 
199. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.). Didric Cuckoo. 
The two specimens sent were shot in the town of Potchef¬ 
stroom. 
[Conf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 163 & 467.—-J.H.G.] 
200. Coturnix dactylisonans, Bodd. European Quail. 
I think this species is pretty generally distributed; they are 
tolerably plentiful amongst the grass along the banks of the 
river about five miles from Potchefstroom. 
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